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Chapter 296 - Chapter 296 296 is pretty good

Chapter 296: 296 is pretty good. Chapter 296: 296 is pretty good. After the screen went dark, it switched immediately to another camera that was far away. Then rapidly, the view zoomed in, showing the army emerging from the entrance again.

Zheng She brought over two cups of coffee. Chen Xu took one, took a sip, and said, “It seems the underground world still has some stockpiled goods. These things, we’ve never seen them in the videos brought back by the clones.”

Yang Jinxia waved her hand to indicate she didn’t need any, saying, “High-tech products, if hoarded for use by a few rather than widely distributed, will only lead to technological regression. After so many years, they wouldn’t have too much left.”

Chen Xu nodded. A society with a higher level of technology requires a larger number of quality industrial workers. From what could be seen in the videos brought back by the clones, it didn’t look at all like an industrial society.

Yang Jinxia looked over at the huge transport truck in the back and asked, “Why haven’t we started yet?”

Chen Xu replied, “Courtesy before force. Let’s see what they want to do by sending someone up here.”

Yang Jinxia smiled and said, “Aren’t you the slightest bit worried that it could be a weapon beyond our imagination? After all, a civilization that can create an underground world has technology that we can’t even fathom.”

The saying goes, one step higher in technological level means incomprehensibly more advanced. The Steam Era dominated the Cold Weapon Era, the Internal Combustion Engine Era dominated the Steam Era…

By the same logic, if the subterranean humans still had their superweapons from the past, they could probably dominate.

Chen Xu nonchalantly said, “If that’s the case, a preemptive strike would likely be ineffective.”

His confidence, in fact, came from his understanding of the game; in the early stages, it was unlikely for there to be an enemy he couldn’t handle.

With the base’s development to this point, Chen Xu had already maximized the development of military power. If he couldn’t win with that, then probably no one else could clear the game.

Star-level games allowed time acceleration. With the press of a button, one could fast-forward to a month later. As for someone like him, who had never sped up the game, there were probably very few.

Because to him, whether or not he could clear the game was secondary. The most important thing was how much he could learn within the game’s timeframe.

If one were to use time acceleration to play the game, they would definitely overlook many details when issuing orders, and that would amount to a significant difference over time.

Chen Xu was confident that, unless someone was cheating, there were few players who could outpace his development.

Furthermore, if it was possible to communicate with them, he could gather more intelligence, which would be beneficial for completing the main quest.

In the video, a robot stepped forward, “You…”

Boom.

A warrior from the underground humans raised a weapon, and the robot exploded.

Seeing this, Chen Xu decisively ordered, “Attack.”

Since they didn’t want to talk, it left no choice but to fight until they surrendered.

Countless robots emerged from the ground and started shooting.

At the entrance, Chen Xu had arranged for two thousand robots and had also dug trenches, ready to spring into action.

In an instant, countless bullets rained down, and nearly half of the underground army fell immediately.

The second volley of bullets quickly followed, knocking down almost all of the rest.

Two volleys of concentrated fire nearly annihilated the subterranean army.

“Ah–”

Only the parasitic armored warriors, clad in pitch-black, remained standing. Each one let out a roar and charged towards the robots.

The third volley arrived, hitting the parasitic armor and creating holes that healed almost instantaneously. They paused for a moment then continued to charge forward.

Meanwhile, the rear compartment of that huge transport vehicle opened, exposing a strangely shaped net-like device.

Before Chen Xu could get a clear look, a light lit up in front of the net-like device, and the screen went dark again.

After a while, the screen remained pitch-black. He asked, “What about the backup cameras?”

Zheng She’s somewhat anxious voice came through, “We’ve lost connection. Along with two thousand robots, one hundred drones on site…”

What kind of attack was this? It had knocked out two thousand robots all at once…

Chen Xu was alarmed and quickly asked, “Is the battleship’s main cannon charged?”

“Charging is complete.”

Without hesitation, Chen Xu ordered, “Fire.”

The screen showed the battleship’s main cannon, a point of blue light gathered inside the muzzle, and with a roar, the blue light shot out at an imperceptible speed.

Chen Xu continued with his orders, “Deploy the nearest drones to scout the battlefield.”

“It’s been arranged.”

On the screen, the view switched to another camera–a drone flying through the air, fast-forwarding rapidly, and reaching the battlefield in under a minute.

On the screen, the figures of robots appeared, seemingly intact but motionless inside the trenches, it was unknown what kind of attack they had endured.

Further ahead, a solitary trench could be seen on the ground, growing deeper as it went, extending all the way to the foot of the mountain–where the cave used to be, now there was a circular hole penetrating the entire mountain.

The underground humans’ army, including that transport vehicle carrying the powerful but unknown weapon, had all vanished without a trace.

Such was the power of the battleship’s main cannon, capable of blasting through a mountain with a single shot.

“Search the area and see if there are any survivors. Then send the backup troops to clean up the site.”

After giving this order, Chen Xu sighed and said, “With that, the humans of the underground world are probably going to have trouble.”

This shot had penetrated the door that separated the underground world from the surface; surface radiation would now be able to enter the underground world unhindered, likely causing many to die.

At the thought, he felt uneasy.

Yang Jinxia consoled him, “It can’t be helped. The power of that weapon was too great. Your decision was the right one, otherwise, we would have suffered greater losses.”

Chen Xu looked toward the location of the cave and said, “Sometimes I really find it hard to fully treat this as just a game. I can’t harden my heart.”

In reality, with the base’s power, sending robots to sweep through and flatten the entire 13th district wouldn’t pose much of a problem. A preemptive attack could catch them off guard.

After occupying the underground world, if it were possible to obtain information on the civilization that created it, even losing ten to twenty thousand robots would be acceptable.

Yet, he couldn’t make up his mind. Once the killing started, many civilians would die innocently. He didn’t want to create such carnage, even if it was just a game.

Yang Jinxia took one of his hands and said, “This is actually pretty good too.”

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